Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-08
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Aurora Boreahs is the title OF 4
new candidate tor favor from the rcGliog
public of California. Ii is monthly pub
LEGATION OF conventional magazine size q,
ll2 pages, and is issued BY Bacon Il Cu.
San Francisco. Each number is complete
IN itself, there being no continued stories
Tue subscription Is 81 80 year II : 10
be regretted that the pubishers here
adopted something like the English plaza
on introducing interleaves with advertise
meats IL looks very much rs il the mag
azine IS being Published solely to gralif,
the demand oi advertisers to have their adj
vertiseinents - next to reading matter -
Here VIC have pleasing stories and ESSAYS
interrupted, as one turns the page, By the
glaring announcement of a grocer,
an insurance agency, a mer-
chant, or newspaper, or q
pork packer. Such surprises nav serve
the advertisers purpose, since ne delights
in shocks, but we cannot believe the
style will commend magazine. Aurora
BorealiS as q Eame is, to say the least, odd,
but that IS matter of only minor import
ance. The stories, essays, poems and other
articles in the magazine so far as we have
been able to examine them, are credita5le
selections. How far they are original We
do not know, as they are of the no
name order. The magazine is well print
ed. and its general appearance is very
creditable.
The Century for january Century
Company, Union Square, New York;. is
very profusely illustrated aud is notably
rich i'll matter. Besides the usual editorial
departments and open letters from W.
L Wilkinson on Greek and Latin in the
schools, Charles Barnard on The Cultiva-
ton of the Cantata,h C. S. Percival on
- Young Men in NaSsar," Paul David on
List aud David and sketches bv
Kemble. Bill Nye, Walter Learned and
DR.. II. X. Goodale, there are these leading
papers The Lincoln Memorial History
French Sculptors," by w. C. Browneli ;
Comets and Meteors," by Professor Lang
ley a new story by George W. Cable (;
Frank r. Stockton's serial; Relative
Strength and Weakness of Nations by
Edward Atkinson, George Bancroft. by
William n Sloane: Picketts Charge at
Gettysburg by General Alexander. and
the Third Day at Gettysburg by Gen
eral Hunt. The Topics of the Times y
department is as entertaining as of old,
and the memoranda of the civil war intro
duces notes from Colonel Huntington and
H NJ. NJ. Richards.
The Magazine of American History -
for January 80 Lafayette Place. New York.
has superb steel-plate engraving of the
late President Arthur, and It's leading paper
is one Of the liveiiest interest, treating as ii
does Of the beginning OF journalism in
America, accompanied by fac smile re-
ductions of some of the earlier papers
queer-looking sheets, to be sure :, A
Curious Chapter in Vermont's History,
HThe First American Rebel :" The Prop
erty Line of 176S, paper on John Van
Buren,, and others of equal interest are pre-
scented. Mrs. Lamb makes the magazine
one OF the very best and most entertaining
and valuable contributions 10 the literature
of the day She is doing great good to the
historical records of the country through
this agency.
The Overland Monthly for January
i4l5 Montgomery street, San Francisco is
a very full and enjoyable number In adj
dition to the reviews and editorials these
papers are presented: The Puntacoosel